Port Milford

In these days of high-speed road and rail transportation, it's easy to forget Ontario's early routes were dominated not by roads but by waterways. With its southern border almost completely surrounded by the Great Lakes, Ontario's shoreline was dotted with tiny harbours, where traders, travelling in small wooden schooners, could pick up and deliver produce, lumber and all other types of locally produced goods. Port Milford was very typical of these small 19th century lakeside ports.